MYCELIA 753

FILM

Mycelia 753 unfolds inside an urban greenhouse, where a solitary botanist has developed an intimate and almost secret relationship with the plants he cultivates.

He speaks to them, listens to them, and tends to strange organisms growing among leaves, roots and fungi. Human ears, hands and hybrid forms appear within the vegetation, as if the greenhouse itself were slowly learning to reproduce fragments of the human body.

The botanist is already part of this transformation. Bark spreads across his hands, blurring the boundary between human and vegetal. In this speculative world, communication with plants is no longer metaphorical: it becomes a language, a form of shared sensitivity between species.

Through this hybrid figure, Mycelia 753 imagines a poetic and unsettling future in which humans no longer dominate living systems, but gradually become entangled with them.

PROCESS

Created with the De Anima collective as an art film for Hangar Brussels, Mycelia 753 was shot inside an urban greenhouse in Romainville, using the existing architecture of soilless cultivation as the basis for a near-future fictional world.

The film combines live-action performance, practical prosthetic elements and organic set interventions to transform a functioning cultivation environment into a speculative botanical laboratory.

Rather than constructing science fiction from an entirely artificial décor, we worked directly with living plants, fungi and agricultural infrastructures, allowing the real systems of contemporary urban farming to become the raw material of the fiction.

The project extends De Anima’s ongoing research into collaboration with the living world — imagining hybrid forms, altered bodies and new relationships between human intelligence and the ultra-sensitive intelligence of plants.